Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 4: Housing ‘product’ to bridge renting and buying

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Rent or buy? That's it? Are you kidding? We are talking about where we live our lives and we only have two choices? Seems like the streets or life on the road would be better at times. Then why not have a Real Estate product that puts a portion of current ...

GPS drawings

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Jeremy Wood makes digital marks -- drawings if you will -- by walking around with a GPS. From his site GPSdrawing: Jeremy Wood is a multidiscipline artist and map maker whose diverse work is an expression of the poetry and politics of space and reflects upon how we treat our travels and interact ...

‘The Sensitive Plant’ – Mimosa Pudica

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

This is 16 seconds of what a Mimosa Pudica or "Sensitive Plant" does when you touch it. It wilts. Minutes later it returns to normal. (Please select the HD option so you can see it.)

Similarities and parallels between Physics and Marketing

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The title of this seven minute TED Talk from Dan Cobley is "What physics taught me about marketing."  Dan draws parallels between marketing and four major principals in physics. 1.  Rearranging Newton's Second Law gives us acceleration equals force over mass. Meaning the larger a particle is, the more force it takes to change direction. ...

Visualizing the Mariana Trench [To Scale]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

This visualization at i-am-bored.com puts the Mariana Trench into (some) perspective:

ArXiv.org

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Recently rediscovered ArXiv.org -- an online repository for free papers on Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Nearly a 100 percent of everything on the site makes me feel stupid so I just glean the site's very specifically focused papers for buzzwords and neato graphics, like the ...

Quick Links: Beck and brain mapping

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo. Beck covers the Velvet Underground & Nico album in one day. (via Brain Pickings) The NIH sets a goal to complete a region-to-region map of the brain in five years by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists.